{"id":1657,"date":"2008-08-26T11:14:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T15:14:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-09T10:49:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T10:49:47","slug":"fm-programming-trend-the-rock-you-grew-u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/fm-programming-trend-the-rock-you-grew-u\/","title":{"rendered":"Frightening FM Programming Trend: &#8220;The Rock You Grew Up With&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/guPAYDyfTKM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Longtime Philadelphia ROCK station, <strong>WYSP<\/strong>, a CBS affiliate, has modified its Modern Hard Rock format to fit some kind of Post-Classic Rock, Hair Farmer-friendly, &#8217;80s demographic. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hair bands are the thing at rock station WYSP (94.1), which this morning retooled its format, expanding its play list to include more songs from the 1970s and 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Now billed as &#8220;94YSP The Rock You Grew Up With From the &#8217;70s, &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s,&#8221; the station will play more from such artists as AC\/DC, Def Leppard, Guns N Roses, Ozzie Osbourne, Pink Floyd, Van Halen and Aerosmith. The station will continue to play more recent artists such as Nirvana and Pearl Jam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article, from the <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, notes that the station&#8217;s new slogan, &#8220;The Rock You Grew Up With,&#8221; was trademarked by CBS. I wonder if similar CBS hard rock stations have or will soon also change to this format. I wonder how old school Classic Rock stations will adjust now that this new format will be skimming off the &#8220;fresh cream&#8221; of their programming.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to sniff and puff up your chest with pride in your satellite radio subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Philadelphia ROCK station, WYSP, a CBS affiliate, has modified its Modern Hard Rock format to fit some kind of Post-Classic Rock, Hair Farmer-friendly, &#8217;80s demographic. Hair bands are the thing at rock station WYSP (94.1), which this morning retooled its format, expanding its play list to include more songs from the 1970s and 1980s. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/fm-programming-trend-the-rock-you-grew-u\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}